Senior manager strategy

Work Location:

Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America

Hours:

Pay Details:

$115,440 - $173,160 USD

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Job Description:

Seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Manager of Detection Strategy to lead the development, implementation, and optimization of detection frameworks that mitigate internal and external risks to the organization. This role is pivotal in bridging intelligence, analytics, data, and controls to proactively identify and respond to insider threats.

You will work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, compliance, product, legal, and data science teams to build a robust, scalable, and measurable detection ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Detection Strategy Development: Design and lead the development of comprehensive detection strategies for emerging and existing threat typologies.

• Data-Driven Rule Design: Leverage behavioral, transactional, and contextual data to define rule-based and model-based detection logic aligned with risk appetite and operational efficiency.

• Threat Typology & Use Case Mapping: Maintain and enhance a library of threat typologies, aligning detection strategies with threat scenarios, business products, customer segments, and regulatory expectations.

• Performance Monitoring & Optimization: Track the effectiveness of detection rules and models through KPIs (alert volumes, true positive rates, precision, suppression rates) and drive tuning efforts.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, technology, compliance, fraud ops, and data science teams to operationalize detection strategies and improve alert quality.

• Change Management & Governance: Document detection strategy changes, support internal reviews, and contribute to governance forums, audits, and regulatory exams.

• Team Leadership: Mentor, guide, and develop a team of detection analysts and strategy specialists to ensure continuous growth and high performance.

Depth & Scope:

• Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required

• Oversees and leads a highly complex and diverse function for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope while growing talent, developing skills and capabilities to achieve career goals, support project / initiative success and achieve business results

• Manages and oversees the overall discipline and strategy for the respective areas while aligning to the enterprise best practices

• Provides coaching, mentorship and guidance to practitioners, business, executives within area of expertise

• Strategic partner to leadership team on the management of the function, with deep industry, external / internal, enterprise knowledge, recognizes and anticipates emerging trends and identifies operational efficiencies and opportunities with other business management / enterprise areas

• Sets operational team direction and collaborate with others to execute on common goals

• Focuses on longer-range planning for functional area (e.g. 12 months or greater)

• Develops, communicates and implements a holistic governance and control strategy for own specific business function in support of and integrated with the overall business strategy

• Manages and plans activities that require alignment across multiple areas

• Leads the implementation of regulatory change management and provides guidance to the team in the development and/or integrated implementation of policies / procedures / changes across multiple business / functional areas

• Leads partnership with management and respective teams for area of specialization with industry, enterprise, and business awareness; recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and; identifying issues and opportunities and recommending actions to senior management

• Ensures all administration, control and compliance activities are complete and accurate to meet targets for own area

• Ensures an integrated and aggregated view of all related business risk and control activities across the overall function providing escalations, recommendations, and decision support to leadership

• Forecasts programs / initiatives and demand, and coordinates prioritization of the portfolio/ initiatives with key stakeholders

• Provides functional / business level communications to ensure messages to stakeholders and/or employees are consistent, appropriate and aligned to business risk strategies and executive management direction

• Provides direction to complex, wide ranging enterprise or cross-function / business projects as a SME and participates in designing, testing, and implementation of solutions

Education & Experience:

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience

• 10+ years of related experience

• Demonstrated track record of cost, quality and schedule control of projects

• Proven ability to effectively manage projects

• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills

• Detail oriented

• Ability to exercise sound judgment

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Strong teamwork and client skills

• Highly motivated

• In-depth knowledge of construction standards, work methods, equipment and materials, operating practices and applicable codes

• PC proficiency in MS Access, MS Word, MS Excel

• Highest personal & professional integrity & standards, & advance TD's vision & protect the brand

• Excellent judgment, including achieving the right risk/reward balance

• Transparent communicator & respected TD representative, both internally and externally

• Advance TD's leadership development, employee experience & diversity agenda

• Role-models behaviors consistent with TD's leadership profile

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Data Science, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Risk Management)

• Experience in financial crimes, fraud detection, cyber or insider risk, or related analytics roles

• Proven ability to design and optimize detection rules or models using structured and unstructured data

• Strong knowledge of detection systems, UEBA, case management tools, and alerting technologies

• Experience with SQL, Python, or similar tools for data analysis and prototyping

• Experience working with cross-functional teams, including engineering, compliance, and analytics

• Excellent communication skills-written and verbal-and ability to present to senior leadership

• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., banking, fintech)

• Familiarity with ML/AI applications for detection and risk mitigation

• Knowledge of frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, NIST

• Hands-on experience with commercial detection tools

Physical Requirements:

Never: 0%; Occasional: 1-33%; Frequent: 34-66%; Continuous: 67-100%

• Domestic Travel - Occasional

• International Travel - Never

• Performing sedentary work - Continuous

• Performing multiple tasks - Continuous

• Operating standard office equipment - Continuous

• Responding quickly to sounds - Occasional

• Sitting - Continuous

• Standing - Occasional

• Walking - Occasional

• Moving safely in confined spaces - Occasional

• Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.) - Occasional

• Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) - Never

• Squatting - Occasional

• Bending - Occasional

• Kneeling - Never

• Crawling - Never

• Climbing - Never

• Reaching overhead - Never

• Reaching forward - Occasional

• Pushing - Never

• Pulling - Never

• Twisting - Never

• Concentrating for long periods of time - Continuous

• Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations - Continuous

• Reading, writing and comprehending instructions - Continuous

• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing - Continuous

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. The listed or specified responsibilities & duties are considered essential functions for ADA purposes.

Who We Are:

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues.

TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you've got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we're here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing - and so will you.

Our Total Rewards Package

Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards (e.g., eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards, generally through participation in an incentive plan) and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off (including Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, and Holiday PTO), banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition. Learn more (

Additional Information:

We're delighted that you're considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we're committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Colleague Development

If you're interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You'll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD - and we're committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

Training & Onboarding

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you've got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process

We'll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation

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